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Cortland Cruises into Third Straight Final Four

from press release

CORTLAND, N.Y. – The nationally
fourth-ranked Cortland women's lacrosse team scored 11 consecutive
goals spanning the first and second halves to break open a tight
game and went on to defeat eighth-ranked Bowdoin, 14-4, Sunday
afternoon in the 2013 NCAA Div. III Women's Lacrosse Quarterfinals
at the Stadium Complex.

The Red Dragons are making their third straight appearance and
fourth overall in the final four and face defending champion
Trinity, a 12-7 winner versus The College of New Jersey in a
quarterfinal game, in the national semifinals, Saturday, May 18,
1:30 p.m. at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Md. The other
semifinal features Salisbury versus Middlebury as all four of the
teams from 2012 return to the final four in 2013.

Senior Maria Di Fato (Camillus/West Genesee) led the Red Dragons
(21-1) with four goals and one assist. Freshman Erica Geremia
(Camillus/West Genesee) scored a game-high six points on one goal
and five assists and set an NCAA Div. III tournament record for
assists in the tournament with 18, eclipsing the mark of 15
established by Cortland's all-time leading scorer Lindsay Abbott in
2011.

The game was tightly played in the early stages with the score
knotted at 3-3 just past the midway point of the first half as Di
Fato scored twice for Cortland and Smith netted a pair of goals for
the Polar Bears. The Red Dragons then started their 11-goal run
with the final four goals of the first half as four different
players found the back of the net to make it a 7-3 game at
intermission.

Cortland
slowly pulled away as Di Fato opened the second half with
back-to-back goals and Geremia picked up four of her assists in the
final 30 minutes. The lead grew to 14-3 with 12:30 remaining before
Gorajek ended a Bowdoin scoring drought of 32 minutes, six seconds
with a goal at 10:06. The Red Dragons were able to possess the ball
for most of the remaining game time to seal the 14-4
victory.